19: The lie

Damon POV

"She's gone" Bonnie screamed again. "I don't know how this could have happened!"

"No... no.." Was all I could manage to say in broken breaths.

"Stefan" Meredith said quietly.

"What about Stefan?" Bonnie asked.

"He must have took her.. He came.. he came to say goodbye to her. I didn't know. Oh my god" Meredith cried.

"What happened Meredith?" Bonnie asked.

"Nothing just like I said he came to to the side of the house. I was out here avoiding Alaric and Sabrina and he showed up. He said he needed closure. He needed to say goodbye. I told him I understood and let him go in the window" Meredith sobbed.

"Why the hell would you do that?" I snapped "If he wanted to say goodbye to her he would have walked in through the front door."

"I wasn't thinking" She muttered "I was upset and...

"Stop making excuses!" I screamed at her "I don't want to hear your excuses. I want her back I want Elena back." I crumbled to my knees again.

"Then we cant waste time" sage appeared "We have to go find her."

"Yes, Stefan was going to take the kitsune's to the island. We can start by going there" Bonnie suggested.

"You really think he would take her to the place he told us he was going?" I snapped "My brother is an idiot but not that big of an one"

"Stefan is not an idiot" Meredith snapped back "He was hurt very badly. I somehow doubt he even knows what he's doing right now"

"Well Meredith could have a point" Sage said quietly "Maybe Stefan is not thinking for himself. He has been acting very strange for as long as he's been back."

:he's possessed or something" Meredith said loudly "I know he is. Stefan would never do something like this."

"He would do anything he could to hold on to her" I augured "I told you to stop making excuses for him and your still doing it. Everyone can just F off I will go find Elena myself,. I don't need any of you" I said huffing away.

"Yes you do Damon" Bonnie said "We will cover more ground of we work together. I know your really upset right now. But we have to try and stick together"

"I agree" Sage said nodding. "Let's just start driving. I will try to sense Stefan's power and Damon you focus on Elena on trying to reach her. We will find her"

I nodded slowly. "I will find her. I wont lose her so soon after finally connecting with her. She is everything to me: I tried to hold back tears as we headed out in two cars to look for Stefan and Elena.

Elena POV

I felt myself moving was I in a car? I was so tried from doing wings of redemption I couldn't wake up and I was trying so hard.

Come on Elena, I told myself, You have to wake up. You have to catch Stefan before he leaves with Shinichi. You have to convince him to make Shinichi give Damon his memories back. I struggled but I couldn't make words come out of my mouth. I couldn't get my eyes to open.

"I cant" A voice said

"You have to if I tell you to" Another voice it sounded like Stefan...

"No You don't understand her mind its like a force field. It wont work. I cant reach his either the connection is broken"

A heard a loud sigh.

"What are you going to do?" A female voice asked.

"Get creative" The Stefan sounding voice answered.

I drifted back to sleep before I could try to figure out what was happening.

I had no idea how long I had been out when I started to wake. I slowly opened my eyes.

"Where am I?"

The room was dark It seemed to consist of a bed and an end table. I couldn't see a window or a ,light switch anywhere. I tried to get up but I still felt so weak. I knew there was something strange going on.

I heard something earlier, I thought, What was it?

I couldn't remember I had been so exhausted.

"Damon?" I called. "Where are we? Where are you"

"Elena" It was Stefan. He slowly walked up to the bed and looked down at me, His face seemed cold, nit right somehow.

"Stefan what are you doing here? Where are we? Where's Damon?" I cried meekly.

"Elena.. You don't remember do you? : he said gently sitting on the edge of the bed, He seemed to be avoiding my eyes.

"Remember what Stefan? What is going on?" I begged.

"We defeated the kitsune Elena do you remember that" he said gently taking my hand.

"Yes I do. I fell Damon caught me, Look Stefan we have to force Shinichi to give Damon his memories back. I know after I hurt you it is awful for me to ask you this, But it is so important"

"I cant do that Elena" Stefan said.

"Please Stefan" I begged "I know it is so wrong for me to ask you that. Please understand what happened with Damon had nothing to do with you. I loved you as much as I could. more then I ever even thought I could love someone."

"Then why did you choose Damon?" he asked.

"Because he is my soul mate. Our souls were meant t be together. I had a hole in my heart that no one could fill but him and it was the same for him."

Stefan, we were meant to find each other. I tried to fight it but I couldn't., I was so drawn to him. Then we met the physic and she explained how our souls are connected. Then we saw it first hand in my dreams together" I was rambling and Stefan looked like he was going to be sick ir hit me. I couldn't tell which.

"My point is that I did love you Stefan. But my soul belonged to someone else. I am so sorry it hurt you"

Stefan sighed "I understand"

"you do?" I asked.

"Yes I do.. That's what is making this so hard"

"What are you talking about"

"Elena.. after we defeated the shinichi and we took you and Bonnie back to the house"

"I remember Damon taking me ti his bed" I saw Stefan's face grimace again "To sleep" I added quickly.

"It was after that Elena" Stefan said.

"Damon went back to the graveyard. To rebury the graves" Stefan said slowly.

"So when is he coming back and where are we?" I asked feeling a pang of sadness remembering them digging up my mother's grave.

"There were some humans that were still possessed" Stefan said slowly taking my hand in his. "They killed Damon Elena,. I'm so sorry Damon is dead"

I felt the room spin faster , and faster. My head was screaming no and I could feel my heart shatter in my chest.

"No.. it cant be." I struggled to get the words out.

"I'm sorry" Stefan said stifling a cry. "I did love him. He was my brother"

I started into his face. Tears were staring to fall on his cheeks and his hands were shaking.I knew he lost his brother but I didn't have the strength to comfort him.

"Please just leave" I said. "I want to be alone"

He left quietly shutting the door behind him. The sobs started then. They started in my chest and ripped through my entire body and I couldn't stop. I sobbed until I eventually passed out. Knowing I would never be whole again.